These became
so overwhelming that no matter how much practicioners of the Newtonian model had
invested in it, they could no longer whole-heartedly stand by it.

Among their students,
and other young turks, in many places, the new paradigm, or new model of
explanation would break through. But the new model, we called it the
einstein-quantum model, would still have to explain
phenomena previously explained in a way consistent with the new explanation of
anomalies previously inexplicable.

All rather like a late model car, doing what Henry
Ford's Model T's did, but in a way he would never have understood. There are many
similarities, but many differences.

The new model would have to be accepted as the
truth, or at least enough, so that current practicioners, in their calculations and vision,
would be one with it.

There would seem to be a succession of paradigms,
each closer to the truth, but overlaping with previous ones, but extending into areas
previously inexplicable. And each one must command the loyalty of its practioners, and
demand the investment of their lives, until eventually, inevitably, overwhelmed.

We need to appreciate that we are intimately connected to the universe. That we are made of the same materials, just assembled in a different way. We are a small but special part of the universe that we have the ability to be conscious. We are the universe looking back at itself and pondering. We have gained the ability to realise, to learn, and to teach, to love and to have, to make life and destroy it, to create music and art, but most importantly, we have gained the ability to understand. Understand incredible things; such that everything around us, including yourself and the vast universe, appears to have been born together as one, some 15 billion years ago, in a colossal explosion caused by a fluctuation in nothingness. It seems we originated from an infintely dense primordial speck of no size.. The paradigm shift in human comprehension is the newfound knowledge that we are all one and the same, but all individually unique.

- Rhian Sheehan

Some describe Paradigm Shift, the debut album by Rhian Sheehan as a cross between folk music and electronic. The haunting major minor shifts of the music combined with the melencholy lyrics create a very New Zealand feel of loneliness and isolation. Samples of what sounds like New Zealand movies intersparse the various tracks of what is a very moving album. Spine tingling stuff.